Nick McKenzie
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Nick McKenzie is an Australian investigative journalist.[1]
He works for Fairfax Media and his investigations regularly appear in Melbourne’s ‘The Age’ newspaper,[2] the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ and the ‘Australian Financial Review’. He also presents special investigations for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s prestigious television program, Four Corners.
He has won Australia’s highest Journalism Award, the Walkley Award, seven times.[3]
Life and career
Nick McKenzie has a BA in Journalism from RMIT University and a Masters in International Politics from University of Melbourne, Australia.
His career began as a cadet journalist at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He joined the ABC Investigative Unit in 2003, where he broke national stories on terrorist financing and the abuse in immigration detention centres.
In 2003, in a series of reports, he revealed the first links between Al-Qaeda and extremist networks in Australia.
McKenzie’s exposes have prompted a range of major government inquiries and police investigations, including a federal police probe into alleged bribery of politicians by Australian mafia figures. McKenzie and his colleague Richard Baker’s investigation into alleged foreign bribery in 2009, involving two companies owned by the Reserve Bank of Australia, sparked a national scandal and led to the nation’s first-ever foreign bribery prosecution. Much of McKenzie’s work has been produced with Baker. In 2012, Mckenzie and Baker were rated the third most influential journalists or editors in Australia by news website ‘Crikey.’
In 2012, Melbourne University Press published McKenzie’s first book, ‘The Sting.’ It gave an inside account of one of Australia’s largest organised crime probes.
Awards and Recognition
McKenzie has won Australia’s top journalism award, the Walkley award, on seven occasions.[4] In 2010, McKenzie and Baker were awarded the prestigious George Munster Prize for Independent Journalism by the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism. McKenzie is also the most decorated journalist in the history of the Melbourne Press Club[5] Quill Awards.
Books
In 2012, Nick’s book The Sting[6] – about one of Australia’s biggest organised crime and money laundering investigations – was published by Melbourne University Press’ (MUP) Victory Books.
Nick McKenzie has also contributed to the Australian journalism textbook, Australian Journalism Today (2012)[7] and The Best Australian Business Writing (2012).[8]
References
- ↑ "Nick McKenzie & Richard Baker". The Power Index. The Power Index. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
- ↑ "Nick McKenzie". The Age. August 15, 2013. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
- ↑ "Nick McKenzie & Richard Baker". The Walkley Foundation. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
- ↑ "Nick McKenzie & Richard Baker". The Walkley Foundation. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
- ↑ "Best Coverage of an Issue or Event". Melbourne Press Club. Melbourne Press Club. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
- ↑ "Extract from The Sting". The Age. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
- ↑ "Australian Journalism Today". Palgrave Macmillan Australia. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
- ↑ "The Best Australian Business Writing 2012". NewSouth Books. Retrieved 23 April 2014.